Presents a survey of the main barriers to employment for young people in Japan, assessing the adequacy and effectiveness of existing measures to improve the transition from school to work and making recommendations for further action.

A succinct examination of the concept of sustainable development: what it means; how it is impacted by globalisation, production and consumption; how it can be measured; and what can be done to promote it.

This third report in the OECD series Sickness, Disability and Work looks specifically at the cases of Denmark, Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands, and highlights the roles of institutions and policies.

This annual edition of Labour Force Statistics provides detailed statistics on population, labour force, employment and unemployment, broken down by gender, as well as unemployment duration, employment status, employment by sector and part-time...

This publication reviews the labour market integration of immigrants and their children in four OECD countries -- Belgium, France, The Netherlands and Portugal -- and provides country-specific recommendations.

This report provides evidence of a fairly generalised increase in income inequality over the past two decades across OECD countries, but the timing, intensity and causes of the increase differ from what is typically suggested in the media.

This report assesses how pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies have contributed to the achievement of certain health policy objectives, and it examines the national and transnational effects of these policies.

Complementary and Private Pensions Throughout the World 2008 provides in-depth information on the regulation and supervision of voluntary and mandatory occupational pension plans as well as mandatory private pension schemes in 58 countries worldwide.

Drawing on analytical literature, the most recent data available, and policy inventories, this publication discusses the dimensions, significance, and policy implications of international flows of human resources in science and technology.

This edition focuses on the employment situation of immigrants. For the first time, this report presents a "scoreboard" of labour-market integration of immigrants, as well as an analysis of wage differentials between immigrants and the native-born.

A survey of the main barriers to employment for young people in Norway, along with an assessment of existing measures to improve the transition from school to work, and a set of policy recommendations for further action by the public authorities and...

This 2008 edition of OECD's annual report on labour markets brings the reader detailed information on recent labour market developments, as well as in-depth analysis of the effects of various policy measures and prospects through 2009.

Contains - for the UK - a survey of the main barriers to employment for young people, an assessment of the existing measures to improve the transition from school-to-work, and a set of policy recommendations.

Sustainable development depends on maintaining long-term economic, social, and environmental capital. In failing to make the best use of their female populations, most countries are underinvesting in the human capital needed to assure ...

This report on Canada contains a survey of the main barriers to employment for young people, an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of existing measures to improve the transition from school to work, and a set of policy recommendations.